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...Koreans may have reason to fret. A key plank of President Ma's economic platform is to capitalize on an expanding China to propel Taiwan's own growth. Though Taiwan firms have already shifted much low-end manufacturing to China, they have been operating under severe restrictions, such as a ban on direct travel between China and Taiwan, and limitations on investment, which put Taiwan at a disadvantage versus other economies in Asia that enjoyed greater access to the mainland. The regulations were a result of the tense political relationship between Taipei and China's leaders in Beijing, who consider...
...communities with plumbing and Little League. These suburban settlers make up the established West Bank colonies that Israel does not want to relinquish - in fact, would like to expand. So far, Netanyahu has not directly challenged Obama on the settlements, other than to say he won't stop "natural growth" (that is, houses for expanding families). Since the Israeli army is always skirmishing with radicals like Zar, giving up the occasional outpost is politically feasible, even popular. But challenging powerful men like Goldstein ("He has a lot of friends in America," former President Jimmy Carter told TIME...
...personal statement demonstrated a commitment to an extracurricular activity, and ended on a cheery note about personal growth. The students I work with at Henry Street have many ideas about what makes a college essay, and they are usually less comfortable. One of them, P, who came here with his brothers from Panama just two years ago, wrote about his parents’ divorce and his abandonment by his mother. P and many of his peers have never written about their tumultuous personal lives before. Their essays serve many functions that mine didn’t: venting, confiding, and forgiving...
...parents are themselves only children. Shanghai officials have since denied any policy shift, saying this caveat is nothing new, but the contradictory reports are another manifestation of ongoing rumors that Beijing is rethinking the controversial one-child policy that has for the past three decades helped spur economic growth - but exacted a heavy social cost along the way. (See TIME's China Blog...
Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, improved sanitation and medicine prompted rapid population growth that - after a century of wars, epidemics and unrest - was initially seen as an economic boon. "Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production," Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." The communist government condemned birth control and banned imports of contraceptives. (Read a TIME cover story on China's growing power...